Public Affairs & Civic Engagement (PACE)

How do middle-class Americans become aware of distant social problems and act against them? US colleges, congregations, and seminaries increasingly promote immersion travel as a way to bridge global distance, produce empathy, and increase global awareness. But does it? Drawing from a mixed methods study of a progressive, religious immersion travel organization at the US-Mexico border, Empathy Beyond US Borders provides a broad sociological context for the rise of immersion travel as a form of transnational civic engagement.

This book advances the conversation on civic engagement and provides critical scholarly insight into where to go next by investigating the best practices to promote civic engagement.

The expert contributions here address the different forms of political citizenship and current approaches and recent developments in social movement studies. Salient social movements in recent history are explored in depth, covering the environmental, women's, international human rights, urban, Tea Party, and animal rights movements.

A diverse collection of short provocative readings on civic activity spanning a wide range of time and authors.

Scholars in many fields increasingly find themselves caught between the academy, with its demands for rigor and objectivity, and direct engagement in social activism. In this wide-ranging and multidisciplinary volume, leading scholar-activists map the terrain on which political engagement and academic rigor meet.

In this century, both the conception and the practice of participatory culture have been transformed by the new affordances enabled by digital, networked, and mobile technologies. This exciting new book explores that transformation by bringing together three leading figures in conversation.

This book speaks to the human side of organization and communities. Both practitioners and academics provide insights that broaden our traditional view of diversity issues into a perspective focused on better understanding the theory and practice of inclusive leadership.